Advanced Courses for KU International Students

Connect, communicate, and grow! Join this fun course to learn important networking and community-focused skills. If you want to build meaningful relationships with professors, alumni, classmates, and other Jayhawks, this class is your key to success. This course is project- and problem-based, which means that you will try to find a solution to a real problem and that your class work will end in a final product that you can share online for personal or professional purposes. Two important things about this class are that learning happens through exploration and in stages that build on one another. Through the stages, you will experience discomfort, you will make mistakes, and you will manage ambiguity. Fun!

3 credits

Are you feeling nervous about your English grammar? Are you worried that your writing is unclear? Since grammar is fundamental to clear and fluent academic writing, you need good control of grammar to be successful in academic writing tasks. This class focuses on advanced grammar structures in writing. In the class, you will complete in-class writing assignments each week and get individualized feedback on grammar errors in your writing. You will learn to identify your grammar weaknesses and fix them!

1.5 credits

When non-native speakers of English lack confidence in their pronunciation, it can have far-reaching consequences academically, culturally, and socially. This class is designed to improve pronunciation by giving students knowledge of the individual sounds, stress, intonation, rhythm, and other fundamentals of English pronunciation. In addition to classroom practice, the students will receive individualized evaluations from the teacher. By the end of the course, the student will be easier to understand and will gain confidence in all situations where English is spoken.

1.5 credits